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Recueil dit de Maurepas--Pièces libres, chansons, épigrammes et autres vers satiriques sur divers personnages des siècles de Louis XIV et Louis XV
Author: Jean-Frédéric Phélippeaux, comte de Maurepas (French, 1701–1781)
Illustrated by: Charles Eisen (French, 1720–1778)
Illustrated by: Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot (French, 1727–1801)
Engraved by: Louis Legrand (French, 1723–1807)
Engraved by: Augustin de Saint-Aubin (French, 1736–1807)
Engraved by: Thomas de Leu (French, about 1555–about 1612)
Engraved by: Balthasar Moncornet (French, about 1600–1668)
Engraved by: Jacobus Harrewijn (Dutch, 1660–after 1732)
Engraved by: Léonard Gaultier (French, c. 1561–c. 1635)
Engraved by: Barthélemy Joseph Fulcran Roger (French, 1767–1841)
Engraved by: Luigi Ceroni (Italian, active in France, 19th century)
Illustrated by: Charles Eisen (French, 1720–1778)
Illustrated by: Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot (French, 1727–1801)
Engraved by: Louis Legrand (French, 1723–1807)
Engraved by: Augustin de Saint-Aubin (French, 1736–1807)
Engraved by: Thomas de Leu (French, about 1555–about 1612)
Engraved by: Balthasar Moncornet (French, about 1600–1668)
Engraved by: Jacobus Harrewijn (Dutch, 1660–after 1732)
Engraved by: Léonard Gaultier (French, c. 1561–c. 1635)
Engraved by: Barthélemy Joseph Fulcran Roger (French, 1767–1841)
Engraved by: Luigi Ceroni (Italian, active in France, 19th century)
1865
Place of Publication: Paris, France
Medium/Technique
Printed book, this copy extra-illustrated with 194 engraving and etchings
Dimensions
Overall (each vol., depth variable): 16.8 x 11.1 x 3.3 cm (6 5/8 x 4 3/8 x 1 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1888a-f
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
"Leyde" [i.e., Paris?]: 1865
Description("Leyde" [i.e., Paris?]: 1865) Duodecimo, six vols.; (v. 1) xi, 286 pp. [1 f.], plus extra plates; (v. 2) [2 ff.] 363 pp. [1 f.], plus pls.; (v. 3) [2 ff.] 343 pp. [1 f.], plus pls.; (v. 4) [2 ff.] 333 pp., plus pls.; (v. 5) [2 ff.] 287 pp., plus pls.; (v. 6) [2 ff.] 359 pp., plus pls.; late nineteenth-century gilt-stamped red morocco (Wampflug).
Extra-illustrated with numerous portraits of seventeenth-century French public figures.
Extra-illustrated with numerous portraits of seventeenth-century French public figures.
ProvenanceNoilly collection (bookplate; his sale 1886); Robert Hoe, New York (1839-1909; his sale 1911-12); acquired in 1922 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.